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Historical Society of Western Virginia 2009 Journal*
ISBN: 9780-0-9816251-1-9
Price: $10.00 (SC)
72 pages

Articles by recognized regional historians, including The Career of Henry J. Fowler by Roy C. Smith, Col. John Smith: Unsung Hero of Virginia’s Colonial Frontier by Gordon Aronhime, 16th Century Spanish Invasions of Southwest Virginia by Jim Glanville, Early Bedford Ordinaries by June Goode and Wearing Hand-Me-Downs in the 1920’s by Helen Abbott Looney.

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Johnston’s Frontier Adventure*
Author: Charles Johnston
ISBN: 9780980131567
Price: $14.95
164 pages

The 1827 story of Charles Johnston’s capture by the Indians—the first book written by a Roanoke Valley resident. The gripping story of Johnston’s five-week experience among the Shawnee Indians on the Ohio River in 1790 is one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of Indian captivity in the untamed wilderness of the new United States. Assaulted by the Shawnees. Johnston, only 20 at the time, recalled his harrowing adventures when he wrote the book 37 years later. Following his ransom by a French fur trader, he came home by way of New York City where he was interviewed by President George Washington. Johnston lived at Sandusky, a Lynchburg home he named for the Indian trading post where he was freed, until he moved to Big Lick. He operated a hotel at Botetourt Springs, on what is now Hollins University, and is buried in East Hill Cemetery in Salem, Virginia.

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History of Roanoke*
Author: Raymond Barnes
Price: $100.00 (plus tax, S&H)
Reprinted from the original (HC)
844 pages includes index (plus 1983 index, 115 pages, compiled by Betty Low)

WDBJ Radio, Roanoke’s Premier Station, 1924-1969
Author: James E. Dalmas
ISBN: 978-0-9816251-0-2
Price: $14.95 (SC)
132 pages

WDBJ Radio, Roanoke’s Premier Station, 1924-1969 chronicles the history of WDBJ radio, the first broadcast station in Roanoke and the second in Virginia.

It began operation on June 20, 1924 and was owned by the Richardson Wayland Electrical Company. In 1948, the station added FM broadcasting and 7 years later entered the television field with WDBJ-TV. This fascinating book discusses staff, programming, entertainment and technology at WDBJ with dozens of black and white photographs and advertisements that bring to life a medium that transmitted music, stories and information into many homes in the Roanoke Valley through the years.

Notable Women West of the Blue Ridge, 1850 – 1950*
Author: Colonel William Preston Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution
ISBN: 0-9710531-9-9
Price: $14.95 (SC)
160 pages

A project of the Colonel William Preston Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, seeks to recognize the contributions of the women of southwestern Virginia counties to their communities in fields such as the arts, medicine, education and civic duty. These are biographies of women whose actions between the years of 1850 and 1950 demonstrated strenth of character, hard work, generosity of spirit, integrity, caring, and by acting on innovative ideas and by forming organizations which reached, in many cases, far beyond their lifetimes.

The Street Railways of Roanoke, 1887-1948
Author: James E. Dalmas
ISBN: 0-9710531-7-0
Price: $14.95 (SC)
152 pages

An illustrated history of street rail transportation in the cities of Roanoke and Salem and the town of Vinton from approximately 1887 through 1948. The book traces the development of street transportation starting with mules through electric driven rail cars.

Author, James E. Dalmas, is a Roanoke native, and a graduate of Virginia Heights Elementary School, Jefferson High School and Virginia Tech. He is a retired engineering manager for Allied Signal. He is a past president of Baltimore Streetcar Museum.

*Titles published by Kegley Publications Division of Historical Society of Western Virginia

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